Lounsberry Literacy Night


When: Wednesday April 18, 2012


Purpose: To help create Parent/Teacher/Student "Team Mentality" at Lounsberry by allowing parents to have a better understanding of what students are learning. Students are invited to attend accompanied by their parents/caregivers.





To Do

Workshops:

  • Collect Names of Students participating in Workshops. If their parents signed up, mark them in red or highlight on Excel Sheet
  • Decide where and when each workshop will take place and how many total people can attend. Label on Excel Form.
  • Update Schedule so that each family only goes to 2 workshops, one in the 1st Section and one in the second.
  • Create a paper/note card for each family that they can take with them telling them where to go
  • Create Excel Sheet for each workshop with following info:
Families Signed up and slots for additional families that may attend. (Posters can be lined up on tables in front hallway and manned by SCA). I
  • Signs in hallways labeling Workshop Rooms.
  • Permission Slips for students running workshops

Newspaper:
  • Write Article before rather than after, inviting people!

Email Confirmation to Participants

Gallery:

  • Video Interview students using Interview Q’s about the process and habits of learning.
  • Edit Videos, upload to Youtube or Vimeo and create QR Codes
    Attach QR Codes to projects
  • Digital Projects: Need to gather and upload to viewing/looping platform. Ask teachers for summary to create Glogster posters to attach to foam core framing PC monitors.
  • Plan out library configuration!
  • Food: Ask SCA to make cookies and Coffee.
  • Close library Tuesday afternoon for set up.

Front Hallway Bulletin Board
Create yarn web with LITERACY Large. Add words and pics representing types of literacy.

Hallway Decorations and Signage
  • Quotesabout learning and literacy throughout hallways.
  • Signs by Workshop Doors
  • Outside Signs, maybe at the end of driveways.
  • Collect whiteboard easels to put at ends of hallways for directions to rooms. Chart outside library w/same info.